Today being Friday (T.G.I.F. everybody), it means it's usually grocery day for us retirees. We get the flyers in Thursday's freebie paper and read through them Friday morning while having breakfast. Sales don't start til friday anyway. So off we went grocery shopping. There are 3 major grocery stores here in Cornwall and each one is less than a 5 minute drive from each other and where we live. I always take my crocheting with me and today never even got a row done before we hit the first store LOL I also went to Zellers for a look around but was greatly disappointed as usual.
Speaking of crocheting I found a new granny square to make. The item in the picture is not mine. I found the picture of it on Ravelry.com It's a place I frequent every day and spend oodles and oodles of time there, reading forums, drooling over everyone's crafts and getting tons of ideas of things to make. Knowing full well I won't live long enough to get everything made in my Projects file. *Sigh* Oh well. It’s a fantastic place. Its members (over a million now) are all knitters, crocheters, weavers, spinners and other craft minded people. I browse through the finished projects section with is over 3000 pages (at 20 per page), I am up to page 2031 thus far. Every time I see a new version of the granny square I have to try it out. Now remember I don’t read instructions so I just enlarge the pic, count the stitches and away I go. So last night I found two more neat squares that I liked which of course prompted me grab some yarn and try them out. This is the one I am making now, it's in a variated orange and brown colour.
I am currently in the middle of making 7 afghans Now you may wonder why I am making so many at once. I used the same wool in each one and so make the square for each afghan until that wool is used up. I probably have a skein of wool for every doll in this house. And I am not exagerating!
Of course two of the afghansare for me or rather for this house. I may give one to my granddaughter (Erika) but I am teaching her to crochet so maybe she will make her own. I used to make afghans for wedding gifts but I will have to wait until another generation gets to that stage.
So as you may have gathered I am a granny square afghan nut! You never see without wool and a hook in my hands. I am doing it now between typing and reading this entry. I can crochet with my eyes closed, watching tv or even riding my stationary bicycle!
The odd time you may find my two knitting needles there for a change. But I am not that avid a knitter. Learned too late in life I think. I really only wanted to learn how to knit so I could make sweaters for my dolls! Now there’s an incentive!
Well that square's finished. Wish I had a camera to take a pic of it. But yesterday my camera died. Well it was almost 12 years old. I have won a new digital camera with the heart and stroke lottery but I am still waiting for it to be delivered. I guess my old camera couldn't wait that long LOL
Have a good weekend everybody.
Speaking of crocheting I found a new granny square to make. The item in the picture is not mine. I found the picture of it on Ravelry.com It's a place I frequent every day and spend oodles and oodles of time there, reading forums, drooling over everyone's crafts and getting tons of ideas of things to make. Knowing full well I won't live long enough to get everything made in my Projects file. *Sigh* Oh well. It’s a fantastic place. Its members (over a million now) are all knitters, crocheters, weavers, spinners and other craft minded people. I browse through the finished projects section with is over 3000 pages (at 20 per page), I am up to page 2031 thus far. Every time I see a new version of the granny square I have to try it out. Now remember I don’t read instructions so I just enlarge the pic, count the stitches and away I go. So last night I found two more neat squares that I liked which of course prompted me grab some yarn and try them out. This is the one I am making now, it's in a variated orange and brown colour.
I am currently in the middle of making 7 afghans Now you may wonder why I am making so many at once. I used the same wool in each one and so make the square for each afghan until that wool is used up. I probably have a skein of wool for every doll in this house. And I am not exagerating!
Of course two of the afghansare for me or rather for this house. I may give one to my granddaughter (Erika) but I am teaching her to crochet so maybe she will make her own. I used to make afghans for wedding gifts but I will have to wait until another generation gets to that stage.
So as you may have gathered I am a granny square afghan nut! You never see without wool and a hook in my hands. I am doing it now between typing and reading this entry. I can crochet with my eyes closed, watching tv or even riding my stationary bicycle!
The odd time you may find my two knitting needles there for a change. But I am not that avid a knitter. Learned too late in life I think. I really only wanted to learn how to knit so I could make sweaters for my dolls! Now there’s an incentive!
Well that square's finished. Wish I had a camera to take a pic of it. But yesterday my camera died. Well it was almost 12 years old. I have won a new digital camera with the heart and stroke lottery but I am still waiting for it to be delivered. I guess my old camera couldn't wait that long LOL
Have a good weekend everybody.
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